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World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said universal health insurance coverage in all countries can help achieve a goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030.
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A hormone treatment based on technology used in Pfizer Inc.’s failed inhalable insulin shows promise in fighting the leading cause of maternal mortality.
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A cheap regimen of vitamins in use for decades is seen by scientists as a way to delay the start of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, a goal that prescription drugs have failed to achieve.
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Sitting in Taipei’s main commercial center as office workers filed out for lunch, Y.S. Liu mourned the collapse of her import business. Her president, she said, had failed to deliver.
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ReNeuron Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael Hunt said he expects researchers to report that people disabled by strokes showed progress and weren’t harmed in an early-stage test of the company’s stem-cell treatment.
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A surge in dengue fever cases among people returning to the U.K. spurred Public Health England to urge travelers to better protect themselves from insect bites while abroad.
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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron will make the agreement of a global strategy to fight dementia one of his priorities for next month’s Group of Eight meeting.
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Should the government require companies to label food that contains genetically modified organisms?
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Biohit Oyj, the Finnish health-care company whose shares have gained 71 percent this year, sees China as a promising market for the Acetium product to prevent stomach cancer, Chief Executive Officer Semi Korpela said.
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Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health said the number of deaths from the coronavirus infection has reached 15, with 24 confirmed cases since September 2012.
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